MV5BMTg3NjUxMzM5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzQ1NjQzMw@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

**Directed by: Tim Burton**
**Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen**
**Rated: R for Graphic Bloody Violence**
**Running Time: 1 h 56 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Art Direction, Music, Acting, Story, Dark Humor**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

October 20, 2018

A barber who has been wrongfully imprisoned for fifteen years returns to London to extract his revenge on the judge who wronged him.

MV5BYzUxZDI3MjktZmM4YS00MzdjLWE5MzctMmI4M2ViMDgxMmUzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg — The Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

**Directed by: Frank Oz**
**Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Levi Stubbs, Steve Martin, Jim Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest**
**Rated: PG-13 for Mature Thematic Material Including Comic Horror Violence, Substance Abuse, Language and Sex References**
**Running Time: 1 h 34 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Music, Fun, Satire, Story, Ridiculousness**
**WEAKNESSES: Target Audience (?)**

The Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

October 19, 2018

A flower shop worker comes across an unusual species of plant that brings him great fortune, but at a great cost.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

October 19, 2018

A newly engaged couple get a flat tire near a castle where the mad Dr. Frank-N-Furter is having a party.

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**Directed by: Andy Muschietti**
**Starring: Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Fin Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer**
**Rated: R for Violence/Horror, Bloody Images, and for Language**
**Running Time: 2 h 15 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Production Design, Characters, Story, Aesthetic**
**WEAKNESSES: It's Not That Scary**

It (2017)

October 18, 2018

In the summer of 1989, a group of outcast kids band together to fight a mysterious force that feeds on the children of the town.

MV5BMDM5YzZmZjUtMjkzOS00ODBkLWE1OWUtODdmMTYzOTQwNDRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,659,1000_AL_.jpg — Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

**Directed by: Stephen Chiodo**
**Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 28 m**
**TMM Score: 3 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Effects, Creature and Production Design, Comedy, Originality**
**WEAKNESSES: Tone (?), Some Jokes Didn't Land (?)**

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

October 18, 2018

Aliens that look like clowns attack a small town.

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

October 18, 2018

Incoming freshman and baseball prospect, Jake, arrives at college where he will be living off-campus in a house with other baseball team members. What else is there to do for a bunch of athletic, free-for-the-first-time, barely-post-pubescent kids to do on their last weekend before classes? Practice?

MV5BNTYzMDk3MzIyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTM2OTE4MzE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,634,1000_AL_.jpg — An American Werewolf in London (1981)

**Directed by: John Landis**
**Starring: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 37 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Visual Effects, Writing, Atmosphere**
**WEAKNESSES: Weak Character Writing in One Major Scene**

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

October 17, 2018

Two American college students on a European holiday are attacked by a werewolf.

tk 1.jpg — Turbo Kid (2015)

**Directed by: Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell**
**Starring: Munro Chambers, Laurence Laboeuf, Michael Ironside**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 33m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Nostalgia, Practical Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Needs a Heavy Audience Buy In**

Turbo Kid (2015)

October 17, 2018

In 1997, after the Apocalypse, one comic book fan finds out that being a hero means acting like one to save their elvish platonic girl friend from the likes of an evil water baron.

AZ 1.jpg — Arizona (2018)

**Directed by: Jonathan Watson**
**Starring: Danny McBride, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lolli Sorenson**
**Rated: TV-MA**
**Running Time: 1h 25m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: Uneven Feel**

Arizona (2018)

October 16, 2018

The housing crisis, foreclosures, and abandoned real estate developments have turned Cassie’s town into the wild west. When another financially ruined individual, Sonny, accidentally kills her boss in front of her, Cassie has to learn to stand up for herself and never give in to her would be captor and killer.

Tag (2015)

October 15, 2018

A high school student is stalked by various forces that seem bent on killing everyone around her.

MV5BMTQ2NjY3NzU1NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODA5MjgxNg@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg — Cold Fish (2010)

**Directed by: Sion Sono**
**Starring: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa**
**Rated: NR (Suggest R for Violence and Disturbing Graphic Images, Some Sexual Assaults and Language)**
**Running Time: 2 h 26 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Pacing, Story, Effects, Writing, Directing**
**WEAKNESSES: -**

Cold Fish (2010)

October 15, 2018

After a man’s daughter is caught stealing at a store and a friendly storeowner steps in to help, the man and the storeowner strike up a friendship. But when the storeowner asks the man for a favor, things take a very dark turn.

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**Directed by: Eric Scott Johnson, Eric Machiela**
**Starring: Luke Klein, Gary Busey, Evan Koons, Joey Morgan, Jimmy Tatro**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG for Some Language and Crude Humor)**
**Running Time: 1 h 31 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Acting, Unconventionality**
**WEAKNESSES: Might Not Be Appropriate for Younger Children**

Camp Manna (2018)

October 15, 2018

Ian Fletcher, a ‘nonbeliever’, is sent to a Christian camp where he is forced to compete in The God Games.

Cabin Fever (2002)

October 12, 2018

Five college kids rent a cabin in the woods and fall pray to a horrifying virus.

8th G 1.jpg — Eighth Grade (2018)

**Directed by: Bo Burnham**
**Starring: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1h 33m**
**TMM Score: 5 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Performance, Writing, Directorial Intent**
**WEAKNESSES: None**

Eighth Grade (2018)

October 12, 2018

It’s her last week of middles school as Kayla looks back and realizes she didn’t realize any of her dreams over her time there. Will high school be more of the same or will she finally start growing into the person she only ever is online?

MV5BOTYyODk2MTE3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjY5OTQwNjM@._V1_.jpg — Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

**Directed by: Sonny Lennon, Tommy Wiklund**
**Starring: Thomas Lennon, Nelson Franklin, Jenny Pellicer, Charlyne Yi**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Strong Graphic Violence, Sexual Content and Nudity, and Language- All Involving Puppets)**
**Running Time: 1 h 30 m**
**TMM Score: 2 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Puppets, Practical Effect, Concept**
**WEAKNESSES: Writing, Acting, Story, Tone**

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)

October 10, 2018

A comic book writer travels to a convention where he hopes to sell a rare puppet, but the puppet has other intentions.

71JF2+G0gCL._RI_.jpg — A Knight’s Tale (2001)

**Directed by: Brian Helgeland**
**Starring: Heath Ledger, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, James Purefoy**
**Rated: PG-13 for Action Violence, Some Nudity and Brief Sex-Related Dialogue**
**Running Time: 2 h 12 m**
**TMM Score: 3.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Fun, Writing, Characters**
**WEAKNESSES: 2000s Version of Cool, Nike Product Placement, Rock Music Soundtrack Doesn’t Always Work**

A Knight's Tale (2001)

October 9, 2018

A peasant masquerades as a knight to feed himself and maybe win some glory.

MV5BMTU3MTQyNjQwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDgxNDczNTM@._V1_.jpg — Venom (2018)

**Directed by: Ruben Fleischer**
**Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed**
**Rated: PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Science-Fi Violence and Action, and For Language**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 2.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: It’s Hilarious, Some Action**
**WEAKNESSES: Acting, Writing, Directing, Logic, Story, Plot Holes**

Venom (2018)

October 5, 2018

While journalist Eddie Brock is working on a story he encounters a powerful symbiote and becomes an anti-hero.

MV5BMjMwNzM2OTk3OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjExOTU0NDE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg — Spring (2014)

**Directed by: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead**
**Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti**
**Rated: NR (Suggested R for Disturbing Images, Some Sexuality/Nudity and Language)**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Writing, Cinematography, Story, Some Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Acting, Some Effects**

Spring (2014)

October 5, 2018

After Evan looses his Mom and his job in the same week, he heads to Italy, where he meets Louise, a seemingly perfect girl. But underneath her skin, Louise hides a secret.

Seduced and Abandoned (1964)

October 3, 2018

When Agnese, the youngest daughter of a Sicilian family, falls for her older sister’s fiance’, Peppino, she ends up pregnant a with a family desperate to see justice served and their daughter married, whether anyone involved actually wants that or not.

Firemen's Ball Czech poster.jpg — The Firemen’s Ball (1967)

**Directed by: Milos Forman**
**Starring: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha**
**Rated: NR (Suggested PG-13 for Some Suggestive Content)**
**Running Time: 1 h 13 m**
**TMM Score: 4.5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Satire, Humor, Writing**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Gags Go On Too Long**

The Firemen's Ball (1967)

October 3, 2018

A satire on communism. A Fire Department in a small village in Chechoslovakia throws a party for their former boss, inviting the whole town, but nothing goes according to plan.

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